When the music stops.. everyone grabs a chair"

[prometheus578]

Help... the music stopped and I'm left standing!
Dad-gummed CD player!
Here's the deal... Bloody thing plays fine fer a while, then around song 4 or 5, she quits, and the little "read-out" then shows the number of the last track.
This is madness!
I've picked at that festering sore more times than I care to 'member. This is the shop radio... if I can't get it working again, then I'll be forced to listen to the crap that my Philistine Co-worker thinks is music.
If I don't get my Mozart back... I swear, I'll start killing again! I mean it, too. (Not just amputations, like last time.)
I've talked nice to it... I've used coarse langauge...
Neither carb cleaner, nor WD40 had any effect. And yes, I've cleaned the eyeball several times.
"Kurt.... why don't you just buy a new one?"
Hey... this was no made in Mexico El Cheapo. I paid top dollar for this baby. As far as quality goes, this was the best piece of merchandise the Good Will Store had on the shelf.
Here's the deal... someone needs to tell me how these blasted things work and what's the quick fix. It's currently in the dumpster at work and I have only one day left to pull it back out before the big blue truck takes it away.

[Dragonrider]

"Percussive Maintenance".

Won't fix it...but you'll feel better. Then go drop $12 on a new one.

(My bud James has a habit of throwing them off into space while he's riding his goldwing...unfortunately he's usually leading and I'm riding 'sweep....)

[DiverRay]

I like Dan's idea. They are too cheap to try and fix, just go back to goodwill and get another player.
Ray

[TopCatGr58]

Burnin' for you!

Hey Prom,

You didn't say what Media you were trying to play in it?? Are these Store bought Factory Pressed CD's, or are they home burned? IF home burned, how old are they?! What brand of blanks?

It's been reported that the home burnable CD's do break down, the ink that the laser changes doesn't hold up over many years, and also in heat, like sitting in the visor holder in the car!?

If you're playing factory pressed CD's and it's misbehaving, then it's probably fried. However, if it's Home CD's, try some factory ones and see how it works? Then you might try reburning/copying your Mozart onto some fresh blanks!?
T.C.

[JWSanders]

I've found that old DVD & CD players and VCR's make great targets. The cleanup can get a bit messy, but the satisfying explosion when you hit them in just the right spot is worth it.

For some reason (I think it's all the dust and smoke in here) I seem to go thru a player a year of the various types if I use them alot. When they make me mad I destroy them!

[mro]

around song 4 or 5, she quits

If happening on a good quality CD then it sounds like the laser is losing it's alignment.

Most CD players will have problems when they run into "errors".
Burning your own?? Helps to copy at lower speed than your burner states it can handle, (52X, try 24X etc...)



mro

[trbig]

If I had to sit and listen to Mozart all day... I'd be the one killing people! I'm gonna put money on the guys you work with messsing with it. If I listened to that all day... that thing would be in the dumpster even if it DID work! lol..

Tod

[prometheus578]

"Insults, yet!"

If happening on a good quality CD

I'll have you know, Sir, that I only listen to good quality music. What nerve to insinuate anything else!
No... they were mostly all store bought.
I'm such a cheap bastard. Guess I'll have to get dressed up and go shop at Walmart fer a new one.
Shame, really. I mean... it was only about 12 years old.

[mro]

"Insults, yet!" , only about 12 years old

Geezze prom, that's jail bait

My Kenwood 6 CD player is about 22 years old. Plays w/o problema'ss...

operator error



mro

[Jerry]

Last year sometime I was in the market for a new CD player, found one on eBay for about $1.50, power switch broken. Bypassed the switch, plugged it into one of the switched outlets on the back of the amp, now it only comes on when the amp is on, which is what I wanted anyway. Plays just fine. Course, shipping cost me another $8 or $9, so have about $10 - $12 into it.

I f any of you are electronic parts gurus, I need an Alps brand switch, part number SDDLD12200 for PC board. Alps can fix me right up if I buy 1,000 units.

[TopCatGr58]

I've got that beat!

I had my 25 year old Technics, single CD player that I had gotten at the Navy Exhange, in Yokosuka Japan in '81 for a mere $400.00! The drawer had started hanging and not opening or retracting about a year ago. I took it apart and found out an square rubber belt was stretched and worn, and found a vintage parts supply on line, and was able to order a replacement belt for a few bucks. Replaced it, and it's working just fine! Surprisingly, it gets rather warm after a while, I could probably pull the LASER out of it and use it for etching or something?!
T.C.

[xs650mike]

For about 15 years I owned a JVC CD player (my first ever) that I fished out of the trash after someone had thrown it away. Seems they had dropped something on the drawer while it was open and smashed it all to pieces. I had a friend that fixed electronic stuff so I asked him if he could use it for parts or something. He said to bring it over and he'd look at it. A couple of days later he called me and said that it was working fine. He had carefully glued all of the plastic shards of the drawer mechanism together with super glue and then aligned the lazer. He told me it was mine for $20 labor. It made a fine addition to my stereo rack. It started to skip last year so I finally junked it. Before it quit working properly it would even play CDs that were messed up and wouldn't work in my much newer Sony stereo in my shop or my cheapo boombox.

[trbig]

LOL..

Guess I'll have to get dressed up and go shop at Walmart fer a new one.

Yeah, because we all know that no ladies run around there with curlers in their hair and everybody dresses so nice. What exactly is the purpose of that. I mean.. they put curlers in their hair so they will look good when they go in public.... so why go in public while they wear em?? Are we supposed to go.... OOOO man... she's gonna be a looker when she gets them thar thingies taken outta her hair!
Personally, I like to go to Wally World dressed in ratty baggy clothes, keep my hands stuffed in my pockets, and keep looking around.. over my shoulder.. this way and that... checking to see if anyone's watching me... Get the camaras watching me while 15 other people are stealing them blind... lol.

Tod

[xs650mike]

Originally posted by trbig
LOL..



Yeah, because we all know that no ladies run around there with curlers in their hair and everybody dresses so nice. What exactly is the purpose of that. I mean.. they put curlers in their hair so they will look good when they go in public.... so why go in public while they wear em?? Tod

The curlers don't bother me too much but I am struck by the fact that everyone at Walmart, customers and employees alike, weighs no less than 300 lbs. Is that a rule or something? I only weigh half that, am I allowed to shop there?

Are Walmarts in OK like that too trbig?

[fredintoon]

Going to Wallymart

Mike sez:-
The curlers don't bother me too much but I am struck by the fact that everyone at Walmart, customers and employees alike, weighs no less than 300 lbs. Is that a rule or something? I only weigh half that, am I allowed to shop there?

Hi Mike,
sure you are. You just gotta spend twice as much as a 300lb shopper to keep the store's feng shui in balance.
Or was that, you gotta go there twice as often?
More importantly, do you know how to behave as a Wallymart customer?
Do you
Park outside the main doors waiting for your wife?
Haggle with the cashier about the price?
Rush straight out with your cart into passing traffic?
Abandon your cart in a parking spot?

Fred Hill, S'toon.